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A Guide to Bringing Outdoor Plants Inside

When it starts to get cold out, it only seems natural to make sure your pets are indoors and the kids have their scarves. Don’t forget a number outdoor plants can be brought indoors during the colder months to help save them for another season. Here's our guide to overwintering plants (as well as a list of which plants to toss).

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I own a wholesale nursery in Long Island, New York, and every fall I am asked the same urgent questions: Which plants can I bring inside? Will this one make it through the winter on my windowsill? Is there any way to save this one for next year? Believe me, I can sympathize. After a spring and summer spent lovingly cultivating my garden, I like to keep as much of it alive as possible, and deciding which plants to bring inside and which ones to leave to their fate can be a complicated matter. So I’ve developed a few rules of thumb.

Left: Clerodendrum Both the vining and shrub forms make good houseplants when given plenty of light and kept evenly moist.